After our stay in Mousehole, we moved up the coast a for a stay on the Roseland Peninsula. It's somewhere I've wanted to visit for a long while, hearing great things about St Mawes and the pretty coastline surrounding it. Luckily for us there was a brand new Unique Home Stays property in that area, a chocolate box thatched cottage named Seraphina and wow she was a beauty. 

Hello! I'm back to these Friday round up posts after a bit of a break. I realised that I still really like these posts even if their only purpose is for me to look back at some of the photos from each week once in a while. They're a bit rambling but it's quite cathartic to write them especially on a Friday when I'm winding down ready for the weekend. It's a chance to chat about random thoughts from the week, my latest favourite TV shows, house news etc. So, back to this week. For me it's been my first week of January and boy has it felt very January like indeed. After such a wonderful Christmas break and week away in Cornwall last week, getting back to normal and work has been long overdue but not alll that much fun.. 

Whilst staying at the gorgeous Herringbone fishing loft {photos of the interior decor to swoon over in part one here} we set about exploring all that the area has to offer. We adore Cornwall with the sheer amount of beaches, cute fishing towns, great restaurants, seafood and countryside but have never visited in January before. It was unfortunate that the week we'd chosen, just after New Year, was especially quiet with a lot of restaurants and shops closed up if not for the week but some until February or even March! Being so far down I guess they're not expecting many tourists in the midst of Winter. The owners of the Herringbone had left us a list of places to visit and along with some of your Instagram suggestions we had a list as long as our arm of places to eat and hidden beaches to discover. Of course some are much more suited to the summer months but we had a fab few days nonetheless. And we took advantage of having some of the places to ourselves, some of the roads and fishing villages are so tiny down here that in the warmer months it can be a bit of a nightmare to get around. 

Last week Ben and I took off for Cornwall. It's become an annual fling for us now in January, the very first week after all the Christmas festivities to escape somewhere in the UK to start the year off. It's a special time and helps to sets the scene for January which can be so bleak after all the fun of Christmas. We like to choose a cosy cottage which has to have a log burner and we go with the expectation of bad weather so as not to be disappointed. It is mid-winter after all. In the past we've gone to the Lake District {here}, Norfolk {here} and last year was The Cotswolds {here}. This year, Cornwall beckoned and where better to look than Unique Home Stays for somewhere beautiful {and trusted} to stay. I don't know about you but I often find myself browsing their website just for the interior inspiration, the properties they have on their books are so so dreamy and this one was no exception. 

Hola, Happy New Year! I hope you're not feeling too blue now everyone has to go back to normal and there's no more lazy days eating Christmas cheese on the sofa, sob. We've just got back from Cornwall, a tradition for us to start the year off somewhere in the UK and ease ourselves into January gently. Now that we're back, I want to throw myself into house projects again. We have SO much to get finished this year, the builders are back laying some blocks for the kitchen extension before it gets too cold at the end of the week and the spare room is on it's way to being decorated and the floors sanded soon. Today I want to talk about some new prints. Whilst it will still be a couple of months until we'll have walls ready to hang any pictures from, I like getting excited ahead of time and trying to map it all out. It's fun choosing new bits ready for when it's finished so that we won't have bare walls for too long. Swedish brand Desenio contacted me at the perfect time, their website is FULL of all the posters you could ever imagine and they are all such incredible value with prints starting at £2.50.